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Erik Prince downplays Seychelles meeting as 'much ado about nothing'

Blackwater founder Erik Prince on Wednesday downplayed a January 2017 meeting in Seychelles with a United Arab Emirates official and a Russian banker, calling it "much ado about nothing."

"People can read my congressional testimony. I was there for a couple of hours. I was there to meet with some Emiratis, and like I said, they said I should meet this Russian guy," Prince told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on "Rising."

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